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SXSW 2009: Talking Alltop with Guy Kawasaki
At last year's South by Southwest Christina caught up with technology super-hero Guy Kawasaki to talk about his venture Alltop (which we've previously covered here at Download Squad). This year, we were fortunate enough to chat with Guy about the new MyAllTop area that lets you build a custom collection of your favorite feeds that are listed on the AllTop site on your own personalized page.
The Alltop site also provides a few selected users' profiles to show you the customization at work and since I started using the MyAlltop service a couple of days ago, I've grown to love the passive feed-reading that it offers. Instead of becoming overloaded with RSS items in NetNewsWire, setting your MyAlltop page as your homepage lets you easily dive in and out of news without the pressure of an ever-growing unread item count.
Be sure to check out the video after the break!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
